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title: System Outage 2017 August 24
date: 2017-08-24 00:00
authors: vaeringjar
description: Welcome to the The Peers Community, a highly motivated community of people with a strong interest in free software and free culture.
summary: Outage caused by DDOS.
keywords: outages
---


# What happened

The peers.community and related sudomains were inaccessible,
intermittently for several hours.  


# What caused it

An unidentified DDOS attack disrupted our DNS.  


# How has this been addressed 

Our hosting provider was somehow able to address the issue.  
